SAIC
SAIC

Principal Systems Engineer

Colorado Springs, CO, US • Posted 12 hours ago • Updated 12 hours ago
Full Time
On-site
USD $160,001.00 - 200,000.00 per year
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Skills

  • Science
  • Surveillance
  • Product Requirements
  • Functional Analysis
  • Software Engineering
  • DevSecOps
  • Cost Estimation
  • Risk Management
  • Scheduling
  • Security Clearance
  • COTS
  • Data Management
  • Software Testing
  • Evaluation
  • Computer Hardware
  • Network
  • Cyber Security
  • COBRA
  • DoD
  • Team Management
  • Agile
  • SAFE
  • Scrum
  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • GitLab
  • Information Technology
  • Systems Engineering
  • FOCUS

Summary

Job ID: 2611190

Location: Colorado Springs, CO, US

Date Posted: 2026-04-29

Category: Engineering and Sciences

Subcategory: Systems Engineer

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes - 10% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required: Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_HYBRID

Description

SAIC seeks a highly experienced Principal Systems Engineer to support the US Space Force, Space Systems Command, in performing operational maintenance and sustainment of ground-based radars critical to US and Allied strategic missile surveillance, warning, defense, and space surveillance missions. In support of the government customer, the SAIC Program Manager, and the Chief Engineer, the Systems Engineer is responsible for responsive and coherent planning, development and delivery of UEWR radar hardware and software modifications in response to engineering change requests and/or system deficiency reports. This position is located on-site in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Job Duties
  • Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
  • Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detailed trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer/operational requirements into system hardware and software engineering specifications.
  • Provides specific, detailed information for selection, implementation techniques, and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity or capability requirements
  • Manages large Agile or DevSecOps teams/projects, to include support to cost estimating, risk management, schedule development, and execution
  • Designs, develops, delivers and deploys engineered solutions, following DoD Life Cycle engineering processes, and/or best practices


Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree with 9+ years' related experience
  • Active Secret Clearance
  • Experience with a broad range of system types: custom developed HW/SW, COTS/GOTS HW/SW, and/or specialty engineering
  • Experience with configuration and data management, hardware and software testing & evaluation of classified systems
  • Demonstrates expertise in at least one engineering field: software, hardware, network, cybersecurity, test, systems
  • Experienced problem-solver, creative thinker, with outcome-focused mindset

Desired
  • Experience sustaining UEWR, PARCS, or other radar system such as PAVE PAWS, BMEWS, AN/TPY-2, COBRA DANE, LRDR, Aegis, etc.
  • Experience in DoD systems engineering, Model-based Systems Engineering and related areas, to include managing teams/projects delivering solutions for missile warning or other national security space mission systems
  • Experience working with large system of systems legacy architecture, upgrading/modernizing outdated technology and/or mitigating supportabilty risks with creative solutions
  • Agile certification (SAFe, SCRUM, etc.)
  • Experience with Jira, Confluence, Gitlab, Cameo, or similar tools


Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.


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  • Dice Id: 10111346
  • Position Id: 2611190
  • Posted 12 hours ago

Company Info

About SAIC

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500 mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian and intelligence markets include secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

We are approximately 24,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.

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